Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...
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The Universe May End With A Big Crunch – And There's Just 20 Billion Years To Go

We know how the universe began. An event we call the Big Bang started it all about 13.8 billion years ago. How the universe ends, though, is an open question. The path forward depends on the ...
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50,000 light-years of blazing heat — Frozen “ice cubes” appear in a place that can’t be cold

In a region where heat eliminates everything that can't take the millions of Fahrenheit, ice cubes are lasting the ...
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George Smoot, Berkeley Nobel physicist who mapped the universe’s afterglow, dies at 80

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...
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Dark matter and dark energy may not exist, new research finds

Scientists have long embraced the fact that forces beyond sight govern the universe. Dark matter, they think, holds galaxies together with extra gravity, and dark energy drives the universe’s ...

Could dark energy change over time? Supercomputer simulations challenge ΛCDM assumption

Since the early 20th century, scientists have gathered compelling evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating ...